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Eighth Grade: First Findings From the Final Round of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K)

NCES 2008-088

Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K), AIR described the middle school experiences of the cohort. The ECLS-K followed the educational, socioemotional, and physical development of a nationally representative sample of kindergartners in public and private schools in the United States from the fall of 1998 through the spring of 2007.

This project provided a snapshot of the eighth-grade round of the ECLS-K and made the data available to encourage further in-depth analysis of the data using more sophisticated statistical methods. It focused on multiple aspects of the cohort's middle-school years in the spring of the 2007, including reading, math, and science achievement, school-sponsored activities, homework, and educational aspirations.

Related Work

The Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies (ECLS) program offers the first nationally representative study of early childhood development and education in the United States. Since the base year of the first ECLS study, AIR has provided support for study design; instrument development; assessment development; field testing; main study collection; database and database documentation development; and training of researchers on the various ECLS databases.